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Saturday, September 25, 2010

Saturday, September 25, 2010

{Welcome back to your favourite prime-time brine crime drama- "Crab Cakes: Ocean Justice!" Before the commercial break, Crabtown was faced with its most terrifying nightmare yet: Someone drank all the coffee! But something more frightening is just around the corner...}

Whew! That was a close call there, but the Sheriff and Pickly Pete saved Crabtown once again! Tune in next week when we find out: Who drained the community pool? Where in the world is Crabmen Sandiego? And what happened to all the potato salad?!?

I don't understand why so many people's cupcake arrangements end up looking so sloppy. I'm sure there are seasonal "patterns" as guides, but do they have to end up looking so sad? Also, I don't imagine red store icing tastes any good at all. So, those crabs are a double no-go.

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I just clicked on an ad from your site. It was for Cricut Cakes. I looked at the site, and it's really cool....but kind of in the way that digital photography is cool. I like that it's accessible to everyone, but, in a way, it takes some of the....something....out of good hard work. Crazy! I know. Like a century ago when white whites were a sign of diligent housekeeping, and not just a result of having access to the newfangled washing machine. That said, I'm not a snob, or one to hold up progress (because, you know, I hold that kind of power). Just nostalgic?

Wow! That was totally worth waiting the 11 minutes for all those pictures to load on my super-snail dial up!Amazing dialogue for such interesting....(yeah...let's play it safe with interesting) "cakes".

I wouldn't have known what the subsequent "shark" ones were had it not been for the recognizable #2 cake. Someday you should do an "evolution of a cake" sequence with the same cake design attempted by various wreckerators, ranging gradually from glop to recognizable, to competent.

I just met a professional baker today; she will be my roommate on a trip to Cambodia and she said of course she reads Cake Wrecks: it's her favourite site and all bakers dread being on the site--except on Sundays.

These photos brought me my smile for the day. I never knew cakes could be so goofy. Definitely not run of the mill cakes. Thanks for the chuckles. My blog is located at http://ihavetopee.blogspot.com/ and is about the nationwide USA overactive bladder problem. Hope you will exchange the blog visit, but understand if you are too busy. The crab's legs do look a lot like poop!

As for the hedgehog comments, I remember reading the original story off of Fark.com some years back. Since then I've used that particular photo to melt hearts and blow minds on said site. It was a story about a liter of abandoned baby hedgehogs that had all injured themselves so the article had shot after shot of adorable ickle witto bebe hedgehogs all with 1 or 2 of their limbs in brightly colored casts.

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A Cake Wreck is any cake that is unintentionally sad, silly, creepy, inappropriate - you name it. A Wreck is not necessarily a poorly-made cake; it's simply one I find funny, for any of a number of reasons. Anyone who has ever smeared frosting on a baked good has made a Wreck at one time or another, so I'm not here to vilify decorators: Cake Wrecks is just about finding the funny in unexpected, sugar-filled places.

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